A country risk team within a global investment bank needed a reliable data solution providing forecasts for the near-term outlook across DMs and EMs – including frontier markets – for use in stress-testing models and for the preparation of materials for internal stakeholders and clients. They also needed charts that could illustrate the potential economic impact of global risk events such as disruptions to shipping in the Middle East and the breakdown of US-China relations.

Solution: Integrating relevant dashboards from Data Explorer into their 12-month country risk assessments via our Excel Connect plug-in allows the team to instantly update and share charts, review key proprietary measures such as our EM Financial Risk Indicators, and use our data for stress testing. Data Explorer’s interactive shipping and fracturing dashboards also provide interactive charts of coherent, credible datasets that help the team model scenarios for these events. Our data solution saves the team significant time, allowing for more rigorous analysis, and is building credibility internally and externally.

A procurement team with a leading multi-national company needed a robust, coherent view of the outlook for key emerging economies for purchase planning. That planning also required readily available forecasts of commodity prices and currency movements. The client required data and forecasts that could feed directly into internal models, as well as a series of related charts for use in strategy-planning documents.

Solution: The interactive macro dashboards on Data Explorer now give the team incisive, at-a-glance views of the condition of key economies, as well as access to the underlying data to plug directly into their models. Our interactive, data-driven guide to the key forces driving commodity markets combined with forecasts of price moves form key inputs into their decision-making at board level. And the ability to drill deeper into our analysis of emerging economies and commodity markets helps the team better understand the key drivers of markets, and field internal questions.

A UK-based real estate investor focused on the commercial and residential markets needed relevant UK macro and property datasets to create charts for quarterly board reporting and for building credibility with other internal stakeholders. In addition, they needed credible, independent assessments of the UK macroeconomic outlook and the relative outlook for major commercial property sectors to help formulate investment strategies.

Solution: Our Excel Connect plug-in feeds our data directly into the client’s internal spreadsheets so they now create branded charts quickly and efficiently for internal and external distribution. They also rely on our Data Explorer’s UK Commercial Property dashboard, which presents key UK macro variables against five-year UK sectoral and regional property forecasts, to understand the market outlook and drive their decision-making.

A time-starved economist at an asset manager needed to form and share house views across a number of internal teams. The economist didn’t have sufficient time to analyse DM economies in any depth, had to create branded, monthly chartpacks by manually importing forecasts into Excel, and struggled to field internal and external questions about those forecasts.

Solution: The breadth and depth of Data Explorer’s macro dashboards now gives the economist time-saving, intuitive analysis of the outlook across major DMs and EMs. Its proprietary indicators, such as our GDP Nowcasts, offer unique insight into the macro outlook for these economies, helping the economist test assumptions and generate new investment ideas. Finally, our Excel Connect plug-in, provides the economist with an automatically updated chartpack showing our latest forecasts of key macro variables.